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Paradise Creek Public Restrooms and Coffee Shop

Ada Inman — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:17:06 +0000

We designed a project that combines a large bathroom space with a coffee shop and a community events area upstairs. The multiple-stall area is designed to provide easy access, safety, and a non-claustrophobic environment for people of all ages and genders. Families can visit the public restroom and coffee shop after visiting the nearby Paradise Creek Park. We wanted to emphasize connection in our design concept, as the park is located in a busy area with many visitors. To achieve this, we created a unique bench that can seat a large number of people and is adorned with educational signs. The bench is intended to evoke curiosity and playfulness and serves as a gathering area, meeting spot, and safe haven for anyone in need of a place to sit, relax, and clean their head.

Fostering a sense of belonging in Wausau through design programming

Ada Inman — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:18:37 +0000

Wausau is a city located in central Wisconsin, straddling the Wisconsin River. Home to around 39,575 residents, Wausau is an ever-growing city that welcomes incoming refugees through ECDC. The Ethiopian Community Development Council, ECDC, is a multicultural, community-based organization committed to empowering immigrants and refugees and helping them resettle in new communities. The organization’s current goal is to introduce refugees into the Wausau community. The purpose of this program is to highlight the current state of Wausau, WI, and how they could accomplish this goal by looking into the city’s past, and current residents’ opinions, and identifying key elements and ideas within the community in order to introduce refugees into a welcoming environment.

UniverCity Contact Info: UniverCityAlliance@wisc.edu

Housing Designs for Sullivan, IN

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:10 +0000

The City of Sullivan, IN has a neighborhood revitalization plan and requires new housing that will attract new homeowners to Sullivan. The IAD251 course offers Interior Architecture Design sophomores and juniors the opportunity to design their own unique home, so they were tasked with developing concepts and floor plans for Sullivan’s empty lots. The course [...]

Black Vulture Project: Designing an Artist Residency

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:37:13 +0000

As a part of the University of Oregon Sustainable City Year program, sixteen
students enrolled in a mid-level interior design studio examined the Salem Civic
Center building, generating proposals for renovation and reuse of the building
in order to enhance vitality and restore functionality to the Civic Center campus.
The students, taught by Associate Professor Linda Zimmer, coordinated their
work with the City of Salem staff, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects (ZGF),
and CB|Two Architects, and worked in parallel with an architecture studio that
generated proposals for new police facilities on the same campus. The focus of
the interior design studio was to develop a set of strategies for the redesign of
the existing Civic Center in order to reimagine the building in light of the planned
relocation of the Police Department, relocation of staff from off-campus locations
to the Civic Center, and improved response to current and future needs.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Year Program Contact Info
Megan Banks
Sustainable City Year Program Manager
mbanks@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-6395

University Faculty Contact
Linda Zimmer
Interior Architecture

lzimmer@uoregon.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Courtney Knox

Urban Development Senior Project Manager